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The ASA GHO recognizes the importance of biomedical engineering capacity in support of advancing the quality and sophistication of anesthesia care possible in low-resource settings. GHO has identified several groups working globally to train biomedical engineers and technicians. These programs will benefit from volunteer biomedical engineering faculty and the donation of test equipment to be used as teaching tools. Learn more.

Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing countries, home to more than 2 billion of the world’s people. Scheduling ketamine will leave these populations with no alternative anaesthesia for essential surgery, and will further deepen the already acute crisis of global surgery.

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 58th Session, has been asked to review a proposal to place ketamine in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (E/CN.7/2015/7 and E/CN.7/2015/81).

The Resident International Anesthesia Scholarship is a competitive Scholarship open to Anesthesia Residents currently in the CA1 or CA2 residents. The one month Scholarships will start as of July 2015-June 2016. Learn more.

Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is seeking an Anesthesiologist volunteer to precept a final year resident on their volunteer assignment overseas in Vietnam. The volunteer preceptor will work with the final year resident with preparing lecture presentations and observing/consulting in the OR setting at the Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Volunteers should be expected to spend from 7:15 am to 3:00 PM at the hospital each workday.

About ASA: The American Society of Anesthesiologists is an educational, research and
scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical
practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient. Since its founding in 1905, the
Society's achievements have made it an important voice in American Medicine and the foremost
advocate for all patients who require anesthesia or relief from pain.